Experience cuts more than one way: Globe-trotting, globalizing and campaigning: Since Hillary Clinton is running on her resume, built mostly as first lady of Arkansas and as first lady in the White House, it is fair to look at the Clintons’ longstanding connections to former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, now a foreign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign.

Samuel R. ‘Sandy’ Berger, as readers may recall, was the former Clinton national security chief who removed classified documents from a National Archives reading room in October 2003, shortly before Berger was to testify to the Independent 9/11 Commission. ...   more »

88^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As May 2003 wends on, the story of the mobile weapons laboratories in Iraq—trailers—gradually peters out. Meanwhile, the race for lucrative contracts for Iraq reconstruction intensifies.
May 19-26, 2003:

 
May 19, 2003 – White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer announces that he will be leaving. He will be replaced by Deputy Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

May 21, 2003 – The New York Times follows the lead on the trailers, up to a point:

“United States intelligence agencies have concluded that two mysterious ...   more »